Diversity is a core part of #Evol2023 at every level!
Come check out the surprising diversity we uncovered by characterizing >1,000 species of yeast!
Think all yeast are the same? Well, that would be like saying humans and worms are the same!
While starting up my research at @unccharlotte I helped complete an incredible project capturing the genetic & phenotypic diversity of THE YEASTS!
In the LaBella Lab we will be leveraging this data to continue our research on the genetic code and fungi! https://t.co/WyfM3O17Oj
@nicolo_tellini@HittingerLab@RokasLab @DOpulente We still have a lot to learn about the specialist yeasts! Especially about how their specialization may give them an advantage in the environment. In the lab, and in their own cultures, the specialists would likely lose a head-to-head race to eat all the carbon source first.
A decade or two ago we could only dream of having genomes for all species of a major branch of the tree of life. Thanks to the Y1000+ Project, the dream is now reality! Kudos to @HittingerLab @DOpulente @Lab_LaBella@MarizethGroene1 & the whole TEAM https://t.co/LdjEQy2BXH
I want to add an enormous THANK YOU to my co-author Dana @DOpulente (right) and our fearless leaders @RokasLab@HittingerLab (whose nametags we stole)
We have done so much amazing work since the 2018 GRC
I cannot wait to see what we do next!
The big Y1000+ Project manuscript is finally published in Science magazine! Years of work with @RokasLab, @DOpulente, @Lab_LaBella, Marizeth Groenewald, the late Clete Kurtzman, and many others:
https://t.co/8sxXRv6u8A
Check out what one of the LaBella Lab Master's interns got up to this summer.
Evolutionary medicine is so fun!
@unccharlotte@UNCC_BIGScience
https://t.co/PPnJv2KS7L
Happy International RNA day! The RNA codon that initiates protein synthesis in cells written as AUG so we celebrate RNA day today - 1st AUGust #RNAday#AUG
It's small
It's mighty
It's the POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!
It's the MITOCHONDRIA!
Preprint from J Wolters, @HittingerLab@RokasLab@Lab_LaBella @DOpulente
https://t.co/SAQMVGdXaH
So thrilled to share our new #OpenAccess perspectives article in a special @AnatomyOrg issue honoring anatomist Kunwar Bhatnagar. Genomics asks questions only anatomy can answer... First Yohe Lab pub with a @UNCC_BIGScience student too! 🦇👃🧬🩻 https://t.co/Y8fGVtrMGY
We also have follow-up project plans to test specificity between aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and their tRNA substrates in this system and in parasitic plants. If you have experience with aminoacylation assays and are looking for a job and a cool project, get in touch!
Check our integrate method for counting viruses in aquatic ecosystems and modern microbialites. Roughly all the viruses in Great Salt Lake weigh about as much as a standard red brick (if you assume T7 size of 50 million daltons).
https://t.co/xu7LhjB0HU
The July GENETICS cover image of a double-helix drill bit forged in 1820 by enslaved blacksmith Solomon Williams accompanies a study from J.A. Mooney et al. on the genetic and genealogical history of African Americans from the 17th century to the 1960s. https://t.co/MPoqscT6kP